When I read people talking about "contact tracing experts", I just cannot stop laughing.
Asia’s democracies often took more basic routes, monitoring and managing the outbreak with tools
no more advanced than phones, maps, and databases. Singapore in particular rolled out an admired contact tracing system, in which centralized teams of civil servants tracked down and contacted those who might have been affected. Their calls could be shocking. One minute you were oblivious at work; the next minute the Ministry of Health was on the phone, politely informing you that a few days before you had been in a taxi with a driver who subsequently fell ill, or sitting next to an infected diner at a restaurant. Anyone getting such a call was sternly instructed to sprint home and self-isolate.
What made this possible was that anyone infected could be grilled for hours. “They sat me down and interrogated me about my travel: every day, minute by minute,” my friend told me. “Where did I go? Which taxi did I take? Who was I with? For how long?” The process of tracking and tracing was laborious but produced impressive results. Nearly half of the roughly 250 people infected in Singapore by mid-March first learned that they were at risk when someone from the government called and told them.
https://www.technologyreview.com/202...-asia-vs-west/
you think the above will ever work in the United states?
In term of the superb S Korea test test, test everybody routine everybody is talking about, the secret is just this:
Just as efficient was South Korea’s testing regime, which in January
forced local medical companies to work together to develop new kits and then rolled them out aggressively, allowing planners to keep track of the pandemic’s spread. South Korea had tested about 300,000 people by late March, roughly as many as the United States had managed by then, but in a country with a population one-sixth as large.
https://www.technologyreview.com/202...-asia-vs-west/
Keyword: forced
Do you think this will ever work in the United States?
It is not like we don't have the world most advanced technology, believe it or not, political and cultural differences play a role, a very important role.
Freedom, generally, is having the ability to act or change without constraint. Something is "free" if it can change easily and is not constrained in its present state. ... A person has the freedom to do things that will not, in theory or in practice, be prevented by other forces.
People just love to point fingers at the president, but how many Americans, private lab, local medical companies, realistically speaking, are really willing to give up our freedom to do exactly what the asian countries did?
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